200 lb. Anorexic

When you think of anorexia almost all people think of a stick thin girl, ribs showing, looking really unhealthy and almost dying but what people don’t think about is that anyone can be anorexic, we just can’t tell because they’ve just started.  Ali Hougnou is 200 pounds and suffering from anorexia.  She tried dieting first but nothing really did it until she went to her grandparent’s house for the whole summer and ate healthy foods, like they did and spent all day outdoors being active- just like her grandparents did.  She lost 15 pounds by the time she came back to school.  She started starving herself and lost 40 pounds.  Pediatricians were proud from the weight loss but were blinded by the great weight loss to see that she was turning anorexic and losing the weight the wrong way.  She is now 22 and a normal weight helping others with eating disorders.  http://www.nbcnews.com/health/200-pound-anorexic-obese-teens-risk-disorder-its-often-unrecognized-4B11216388